Last Updated: 23 Mar, 2023 | Views: 370
Age: 58
Profession: Doctor
Other Profession(s): Activist, Physician
Famous For: First woman to enroll at the Colegio Nacional de La Plata
Higher Education: University of Buenos Aires
About (Profile/Biography)
Julieta Lanteri was born on March 22, 1873 in Argentina. At the age of 20 she enrolled in medical school, becoming the first woman in Argentina to do so. Despite facing discrimination from her male peers, she graduated at the top of her class with honors in 1895.Dr. Lanteri established several medical institutions during her time as a physician, including the Argentine Society of Women Physicians, which provided support for female medical practitioners at a time when it wasn't easy for women to practice medicine.
Julieta Lanteri Career:
Julieta LanteriEstablished Argentine Association of Free Thought: (1905): She established the Argentine Association of Free Thought in 1905, and remained active in women's rights causes.
Julieta LanteriEstablish Center for Feminism: (1906): She plays big role in the establishment of the Center for Feminism at the 1906 International Congress of Free Thought, held in Buenos Aires.
Julieta Lanteri Organize the First International Congress of Women: (1910): She helped organize the first International Congress of Women in 1910, and later helped organize the first National Child Welfare Congress.
Julieta LanteriRan for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies: (1918): Lanteri instead joined her lawyer, Angelica Barreda, in forming a political party, the National Feminist Union, in 1918. She ran for a seat in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in every election thereafter until the 1930 military coup.
Julieta LanteriFounded the First Primary School: (1928): She founded the first primary school in the town of Sáenz Peña, Buenos Aires, and lectured extensively in Europe. She ventured into other activities, introducing a hair restoration tonic in 1928.
Julieta Lanteri Death:
Lanteri walked along Diagonal Norte Avenue, in downtown Buenos Aires, on February 23, 1932, when a motorist struck her. The driver fled, and following two days in the hospital, the noted physician and activist died at age 58; over 1,000 people attended her funeral.
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